[CaptainMorgan]

Welcome to the forums aytidaalkuhs!

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It's printing alternating characters from the second on because you made one call from within the while line, and another during the output line. See the API for more details. Take a view at the code too:

Code:

 
// read reads from the input stream
while(handle.read()!= -1) { // with this, you've made one read here, comparing every other read to -1
  // with this, you've made another read, outputting every other character
  System.out.print((char)handle.read()); 
}

My suggestion is you need a new way to do it, because if your intention is to print every char in the stream- well, this code just isn't working, now is it?